Purpose: to discuss what '''plplot''' means . ---- All development on the "plplot" library has moved to sourceforge. The older development hosted at 'dino.ph.utexas.edu' has been moved over, and that host is no longer valid. Therefore all 'plplot' information is centered at: What: plplot Where: http://plplot.sourceforge.net/ Description: Plplot is a GLPL'ed graphing and plotting package, containing much improved C++ and Tk (and incr Tk) integration compared to the old releases. It also includes a stand alone Tcl matrix object. Binary versions for MacOS 8.1 and Windows NT are also available. Currently at version 5.6.1 Updated: 2006-05-29 Contact: see plplot mailing lists on sourceforge for contact info (Dr. Maurice LeBrun) The remaining items are applications which ''use'' plplot (and there are many, many applications in that category, including 'R'). People should feel free to add info about other applications that make use of plplot - the idea is to help people learn how they can leverage tools to greater productivity. ---- What: TiM Where: http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/%7Ethiebaut/TiM/TiM.html ftp://ftp-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/thiebaut/TiM/tim4.0.tar.gz Description: TiM is a Tcl extension designed to process 2 dimensional arrays of binary data (referred to as a matrix). Think of it is a MatLab-like Tcl extension. Provies arithmetic operations on matrices, transformations, various data types, ability to read and write binary data in little or big endian byte order, ability to write image file formats with or without automatic compression, plot drawing (with PLplot), and various other image manipulation procedures. Updated: 02/1997 Contact: mailto:thiebaut@obs.univ-lyon1.fr (Eric THIEBAUT) ---- Plplot is on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2915 PLplot is relatively small, portable, freely distributable, and is rich enough to satisfy most users. It has a wide range of plot types including line (linear, log), contour, 3D, fill, and almost 1000 characters (including Greek and mathematical) in its extended font set. The package is designed to make it easy to quickly get graphical output; only a handful of function calls is typically required. For more advanced use, virtually all aspects of plotting are configurable. Both ordinary tk widgets and some embedded widgets (which require Itcl) are provided. A binary compile of an extension for WinTk is available here: ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/extensions/ Also see http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/Pltk.html for some screenshots. A scripted document containing 19 nice demos is here: ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/extensions/plplotter.kit (only contains compiled dll for Windows, you'll need the sources to compile this for unix/mac). NB, both of these define the 'Plplotter' package (not 'Plplot'), for a variety of reasons. [http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/pics/plDemo1.gif] The graphing widget ("plframe") is double-buffered and redraws itself if you resize the widget. One can also zoom in on small areas of the plot. The cvs distribution contains many examples (in examples/tcl and examples/tk) which work well with this binary release. Plplot now reroutes all file i/o to Tcl (if desired) and therefore can make use of vfs support and so will work from inside a scripted document (it contains a number of support files for drawing numerous glyphs and world maps which it wants to load -- hence the need to reroute i/o to Tcl). [Vince] was responsible for making Plplot work with Tk cross-platform. ---- [AM] (15 august 2008) Currently, I am one of the developers/maintainers of PLplot. While most of my work has been focused on the Fortran bindings and the Windows platform (native Windows, Cygwin and MinGW), now the time has come to pick up the Tcl and Tk bindings, as they have been receiving little attention these past couple of years. One immediate thing to do is translate all the examples to Tcl. Anyone want to help? ---- [Category Application] | [Category Package] | [Category Graphics] | [Category Plotting]